Earlier research has shown that an excessive workload has a substantial negative effect on students' well being. The present study examines how Finnish and Chinese university students' perceptions of workload are related to their perceptions of the teaching and learning environments (TLE). This is done in order to determine whether the perceived…

This study compared the beliefs college-level students hold about corrective feedback in different learning contexts: English as a second language (Canada, n = 197) and English as a foreign language (Russia, n = 224). The participants completed a 40-item questionnaire that dealt with various aspects of feedback found in the literature. While the…

This paper investigates the effects of school on learning as exhibited in this research. In all three studies, there were regressional analyses carried out in which the total variation to be accounted for was that between school averages, and regression analyses in which the total variation to be accounted for was the full variation between…